Stupidity is the kind of movie you either get or you don't.
Kind of depends what side of the debate you're on.
That's why it's been a big hit in some places.
I loved it because to me it's the first doc that comes out and says people really work at being ignorant.
of course they do...
after 9/11, i asked my mother in law if she was at all interested in knowing why it happened. she replied, "no, i just want them all dead".
You don't have to be much to 'get' this movie. It's a bunch of rambling from various people (the real intellectuals got the shortest screen time), most of which consists of extremely obvious statements about the nature of stupidity.
How about the quest to find the lowest common denominator?
Adam Sandler:
Playing Dumb
Lowest Common Denominator?
- Negative -
Reading philosophous2k's comment made me think of all those smart stupid people they talked about in the film. did you notice that the film began by saying "this film was made by idiots."
i think part of the film's point is that many so called smart people are sometimes entertained by shows (or documentaries) that cater to the "lowest common denominator."
i agree that it wasn't the most profound documentary i've seen, but i'm not going to get self-righteous about it and claim that it caters to the lowest common denominator. in fact, i thought its style was deliberate. how could this movie let chomsky talk for more than a minute?
but what do i know. i like fart jokes.
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It was made somehow like MTV programs, the way I hate. And that is quite paradoxal because they wanted to show for example, how stupid tv-shows can be but this program itself was full of blank, pointless jumping around and wasting of time without concentrating on anything.
Only my opinion.
It's a load of horsedung
shareYeah I got some of it, but other parts I didn't get so much.
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